In an open market economy, cheap Iranian apple imports into India and impacting the price curve of the Kashmir apple in the months of December and January. The report offers a wide view of the apple market in India and how Kashmir, the principal apple grower, in the region must adjust to it by adopting the ecnomy of scale.
SRINAGAR: Expressing concern over the incurring losses, the Kashmiri fruit grows Wednesday appealed Government of India (GoI) to ban the import of Iranian apples in the Indian market.
SRINAGAR: Director-General Horticulture Kashmir has written to Principal Secretary to Government, Horticulture Department, to raise the issue of “illegal” import of Iranian apple with LG administration and government of India for necessary action.
by Mohammad Younis SRINAGAR: A group of fruit traders in Sopore Mandi put up a protest against, what they said, the “illegal sale of Iranian apples in India.” They said the Iran apple is getting into India in the name of Afghanistan which has started impacting the Kashmir apple.
In order to get the best from its apple cart, Jammu and Kashmir invested massively in creating a vast infrastructure in pre and post-harvest. The creation of the market chain was a major change.